I have an autistic friend who likes to go barefoot because it helps her sensory stuff. Chancellor Ake is good representation - she does a damn fine job with no shoes on!
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I haven’t watched STA. Is the captain really lounging in the chair and going barefoot?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 23 hours ago
vii@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
She’s a Lanthanite memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lanthanite They tend to have certain eccentricities for obvious reasons.
themoken@startrek.website 1 day ago
Yes, but in context it’s not a big deal. A lot of it is contrasting her with her peer, the chancellor of the war college, who is uptight. Ultimately, she’s less military commander, or even explorer, and more chancellor of a school full of students and in that capacity it makes more sense to generate a relaxed atmosphere. When the situation calls for it, she can be serious as well.
She just has her own style, but people want to be negative because she’s not Picard-ing hard enough or some dumb shit.
Kirk@startrek.website 1 day ago
On the contrary it is a big deal, it makes Ake extremely endearing and likeable.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 1 day ago
She reminds me of a few of my professors in both my undergraduate English program and my graduate religious studies program, all of them wonderful and safe-feeling people. She’s the first school chancellor we’ve really seen in Star Trek and she feels very much like a university-level educator to me–with the whole starship command piece being additional to her main job.
Kirk@startrek.website 21 hours ago
“It’s a school but also they go on starship adventures” sounds so dumb to me I can’t believe it works so supremely well.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just remember, Star Trek ships don’t have seat belts. Gonna be fun when someone slams on the brakes and Captain slouchy goes flying out of her chair, across the freshly waxed floor, and into the viewscreen. At least the nextgen crew knew to put carpet on the floors.
Kirk@startrek.website 1 day ago
oh hey its the guy from the article
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 day ago
These ships all had inertia dampers, otherwise the crew would be paste during most maneuvers. Seatbelts would just cause a different kind of mess. And even if they didn’t, are you suggesting Picard’s grip is sufficient to combat those forces? Because he didn’t have a seat belt, either. Maybe it was the force of his presence that you think was going to keep him seated?
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T156@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s also been 800 years since then. It’s the third millennium, the seat probably is the belt itself at that point.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 23 hours ago
The Athena has inertial dampeners. The only reason she’d get hurt from curling up on the captain’s chair with a book is in a combat situation. And we saw her put the book down when things got serious.
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t even know the premise for the show… If the captain of a flagship was lounging in the chair, I would lose lock pretty fast. Apparently this is an academy and she is more like a professor?
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 day ago
The Academy is a fully-functional starship, so she’s both the captain and the chancellor. She’s 500 years old, is a bit of a hippy, and is happy to lounge around when they’re not facing a crisis.
Kirk@startrek.website 1 day ago
Jimmmy Kirk lounged around when there was a crisis so I don’t know what these people are upset about
themoken@startrek.website 1 day ago
I encourage you to watch it and form your own opinion (just make sure to get past the first ten minutes of the pilot, the tone shifts dramatically).
Captain Ake runs the Academy and commands the Academy ship, the Athena, which is used to do more hands on training but isn’t the flagship by any stretch. She’s more like a principal than a professor. The other main characters are cadets, with some strong supporting characters too.
IMO it’s the first live action Trek show in the new era to come out firing on all cylinders and it’s great to see.